单词 | highway |
释义 | highway (haɪweɪ ) Word forms: highways countable noun A highway is a main road, especially one that connects towns or cities. [mainly US] I crossed the highway, dodging the traffic. Synonyms: main road, motorway, roadway, thoroughfare Collocations: highway improvements Small-scale highway improvements and school building projects have been badly hit. Times, Sunday Times We dread highway improvements and landscaping, public conveniences and public sculpture and municipal murals. The Times Literary Supplement In 1996, they started working on the basic infrastructure: highway improvements, woodland clearance, parking, paths and so on. Times, Sunday Times Several people suggested that the highway improvements, started at the same time as the renumbering, have done more to reduce fatalities than the renumbering itself. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The majority of early provincial highway improvements merely consisted of upgrading local roads. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We are calling on local councils to do more to promote road safety- with better highway maintenance and street lighting, for example. Times, Sunday Times Its public services operations tend be in highway maintenance, refuse collection and on waterways. Times, Sunday Times Councils want an extra 1billion a year for highway maintenance, paid for by a 2p levy on existing fuel duty. The Sun They perform transportation related research in highway maintenance, transportation infrastructure, structures, and roadways. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some highway maintenance agencies have separate numbering systems for their minor and major routes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Taking the advice of a highway patrolman, they head down a long dirt road, where they run over spikes, flattening all of their tires and stranding them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Security was provided by 123 men on foot, 40 perimeter horse riders, highway patrolmen and two helicopters. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He organized detachments of armed highway patrolmen and assigned them to the principal highways to combat an epidemic of robbery. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The beginning salary was $1,500 per year for a highway patrolmen and each year thereafter the salary would be increased $120 a year until a maximum of $2,000 a year was reached. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The bridge project resulted in a realignment of several highway routes in the area. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 All of the above highway routes were designated by acts of the state legislature between 1921 and 1928. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Most of the other highway routes in this area are odd-numbered and run northeast/southwest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Typically, the tablets were located near schools, government buildings or along old highway routes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Highway departments make use of stereo and terrain analysis techniques to determine potential highway routes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It has happened before – more than 60 years ago, when federal highway safety officials first got interested in autonomous vehicles. Smithsonian Mag This did nothing for highway safety. The Times Literary Supplement The council told him to 'concentrate on ensuring highway safety'. Times, Sunday Times Section 402 of this act set up the structure of state highway safety programs to be administered by the designee of each governor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These advancements have allowed for newer highway safety innovations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the highway sign example, a downward arrow designating a lane becomes a slightly larger pot leaf. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Federal law says the highway signs can only be 8 square feet at most. Christianity Today Within minutes, extremely high winds can arise, strong enough to knock over highway signs and topple large trees. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, some states do use highway signs that distinguish between a federal and state route. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He's scared of heights, so he usually has his henchmen tag his own graffiti at heaven spots (places that are life-threatening, such as highway signs). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some say the negotiations broke down, others that a police marksman took aim when the vehicle stopped at a highway toll. Times, Sunday Times Even when he abolished vexatious levies such as octroi and highway toll, there was hardly a murmur of protest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Furthermore, such circuits may cost as much as to race, while the highway toll may cost less than. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, approximately 50% of those are used for non-military activities such as security providers for government-owned non-military facilities, highway toll stations, prisons, forestry work, state enterprises, and private businesses. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Passengers must also pay any highway tolls. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Unfortunately, the nation's highway traffic officer wombles had other ideas. The Sun Partly because the highway traffic officer hadn't been invented in 1993. Times, Sunday Times In one, a driver plays board games with his passenger as the car navigates heavy highway traffic. Times, Sunday Times Highway traffic had to be diverted onto local streets. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Sleep-aid and nap-machine products may also produce other soothing sounds, such as music, rain, wind, highway traffic and ocean waves mixed withor modulated bywhite noise. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 On the autopista, the unlined, largely unused main highway, men cleared the endless grass verges with sickles. Times, Sunday Times (2008) `The main highway is okay, but the side roads into the high country are another matter. A SEASON IN HELL We were on the main highway from Calcutta to Madras. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent (1994) It is also quite demanding, as you have to keep crossing a main highway into London. Times, Sunday Times (2014) He had been there for a few days when he was clocked driving at more than 100mph along the country 's main highway. Times, Sunday Times (2015) This includes four major highway schemes, along with the necessary local community infrastructure - such as schools and health facilities - required to support the scale of such development. Times, Sunday Times Since their lifestyle revolved around agriculture, they preferentially settled rural lands along the major highway networks which they moved along. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 2002, the river overflowed causing flooding of a major highway. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Through the 1920s, the main concern of residents was the construction of a major highway connection. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 During the 1920s, the population peaked around 1,200 as major highway construction began in the area. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The paved highway has been left behind, and now the roads are made of sand that stretches away out of sight. The Times Literary Supplement Roads tend to run out in other places, forcing drivers to transfer their vehicles on to rail carriages that connect them to the next paved highway. Times, Sunday Times The new, paved highway bypassed the hamlet center and cut some properties in two. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Over the course of the highway's history, it was upgraded from a dirt and gravel connector route to a fully paved highway. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This paved highway varies between two and four lanes of travel. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The old super highway could no longer support the increased traffic volumes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was originally thought that they needed 4 to 5 miles of super highway in both directions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His cycle super highways have also been cited as one of his crowning achievements. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 公路尤指城市间的 Japanese: 主要道路 |
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